Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.06.1964, Side 172

162
gull glóa. Ecki vissi hann hvar hann hafdi jnngeng-
id vm kvelldid. hann sér nu eitt hus hvar uykur. og
gengr þangad. þar eru jnni marger menn og katlar s
vppi. og slátur j sodid. Hann gengr jnnar yfer elldinn.
eingi madr leggur til hans. hann sezt nidr a einn
hnack. þvi næst kemur framm ein kona. hvn er j e
k<l)ædvm slitnumm óllum. hun gripur til hans med
miklv afli og svipter honum burt af hnackinvm svo
hann liggur fallinn vid auskunna og nv gripur hann »
vm hennar hond og kreister svo fast at blód stauck
vndan hverivm nagli. hann tók vm hennar háls og
kreisti svo vatn flavt vm bædi hennar avgv. og nu 12
litur hann hennar ásiónu og þiker miög lik þeirri sem
hann sá j steinenvm. Slepper nv henne og stendr vpp.
og gengr burt vr steikara husinv. hann sér þá huar 15
marger menn ganga jnn j eitt hvs og þar gengr hann
efter. kemur j eitt uegligt herbergi og sér þar sitia
7 klædvm] supplied, frorn GkS 1006 fol, p. 558.
13 mióg] with this word the text in 343a begins, 105r.
11. Vilmundr can now see the city’s towers. In the
sunlight they shine like gold. He sees smoke rising from a
bouse and goes towards it. There are many people inside.
None of them takes any notice of him. He goes past them
up to the fire-place. Here there is meat on the boil. He
sits down on a chair but at this a woman in tattered
clothes appears and seizes hold of him with great force
and casts him from the stool down into the pile of ashes.
He seizes her hand and squeezes it so hard that blood
spurts out from beneath the nails. Afterwards he takes
such a firm hold of her neck that the water streams out
of her eyes. He looks at her face and thinks she resembles
the woman he saw in the rock. He rises, lets go of her and
goes away from the kitchen. When he then sees many
men going into a house, he follows them and comes into
a splendid room. Here he sees many men and realises that